Adolf Muesmann
Adolf Muesmann (born July 4, 1880 in Augsburg ; † September 27, 1956 there ) was a German architect , urban planner , construction clerk and university professor .
Life
Muesmann studied architecture from 1899 to 1904 at the Technical University of Karlsruhe and the Technical University of Munich , he passed the main diploma examination in 1904 in Munich. He began a legal traineeship in which he initially worked in Rosenheim from 1904 to 1905. In 1907 Muesmann passed the second state examination in Munich and was appointed government master builder ( assessor in the public building administration).
From 1907 to 1914 he worked as a city architect in Bremen . He then moved to Stuttgart as head of the city planning office. From 1919 to 1921 he worked as a lecturer for urban planning and settlement at the Technical University of Stuttgart ; at that time, Paul Bonatz was the chair's successor to Theodor Fischer . In 1921 Muesmann moved for a short time to Düsseldorf as head of municipal building construction (city planning director).
On April 1, 1921, he was appointed full professor for building construction and design, urban planning and settlement at the Dresden University of Technology - as the successor to Cornelius Gurlitt . From 1925 he also took over the management of the urban development seminar as the successor to Ewald Genzmer . In 1926 he took part in the International Urban Development Congress in Vienna, where he gave a lecture on large and small houses and their significance for the urban organism . In November 1933 he signed the professors' declaration of Adolf Hitler at German universities and colleges . From 1936 he headed the university study group for spatial research at the TH Dresden. After about 24 years as a professor in Dresden he was early 1945 emeritus .
Buildings and designs
- 1924–1926: St. Rupert Parish Church in Freilassing
- 1928: Competition design for a catholic merchant memorial church in Leipzig (awarded 1st prize, not executed)
- 1928–1929: Parish Church of Christ the King in Rosenheim
- Restoration of St. Stephen's Church in Augsburg
literature
- Muesmann, Adolf . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 444 .
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Leipzig. The sacred buildings. (= The architectural and art monuments of Saxony. ) Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1995, Volume 3, p. 949.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Muesmann, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German architect, urban planner and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1956 |
| Place of death | augsburg |